New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-19
noGus BUTTER. MEN FINED.
LARGE NUMBER OF THEM PLEAD, GUILTY.
NEARLY IS, 900 TAKEN IN-DIscRiMISArIoN IN The
PUNISHMENT

YEARLY $4,000 TAKEN IN-DIscRIMISATIoN IN HE
PUNISHMENT
ael,ers OF oleomargsrine from large manuiac'u,0i
down 10 restaurant keepers who sold nve Genus VIZ a.
the substitute for butter were arraigned yesei. -
Part ILL., Of the Court OF General Sessions peio0
su,vth Many Of them were members OF an assoo'''o"
of retail grocers and all OF these were repfesehsu ~.
same LAWYER Oscar Renaud, WHO hah asreou se
veehs aco that his clients would piead guilty II no o"
,h decision OF the Court of Appeals left no
,oopho,e for escape those who SOLD the SUBSTANCE
hhor they repreSented IL butter or oeomarsarihe
u. .xom,ucd The decision carefully and many oil MS
clients came in body yesterday to redeem MS pedee
Dcnty State Dairy Commissioner Van vakenbcrg ana
his counsel Leroy s. Gone, had been Ill cohsnita'on
with istrict-Attorney MARITIME and hal gwen MIN
all the information which they had as TO inc circuh
Atances under which the sales were made ana .ne re'
tive cnpability OF the accused men. Mr.. Marine anu
Assistant Attorney Davis had carefully prepare"
lists OF the cases and Mr. MARITIME referred 10 'nci "
making his recommendations to the hecoroer'
The law is now construed in the courts SO as 10 rehuef
ho oueson OF the honesty OF the dealer In MS
.ona "a N what the substance is inmate rial on MS
etc, To he sells oeomargarine as oleomarganc he Is
still guilty The first called by Mr.. MARITIME "eio
william Briggs and Bernard McQuade grocers, OF NO
12o west.st. They pleaded guilty and MI MARITIME saiu
to the Recorder: AT. ,uu..
calendar in wn the indictments for violation OF the law
commonly called the In ali these cases but
the defendants shouhi nave we
who have made regular business
,iJesne I'm oeomargarine the other hnu are
whom only one coinpIlnt nas
BEEN aGe 10 e various defendants their
culpabity. arragned nave peen s.oVn
most persistent voators Of this law Ihere are r s
nens members OF tIe n,
has been some about the CONSTRUCTION p
tbis law and only recently that the Court oI
q i hs GsnS gully
saving the expense and time OF trais VIII he f fbe
in any Imprisonment when lsanoWeu ny
law will ask IN the case now before tne at IN mis-
IRENE limit OF fine 900 shall ask however ., , III ,ns
ease the $3.50. which Is lar ah snau w
mend in the OF who have been less pesis'en III
their sale OF this article -,
Mr.. Remand asked that the fines might be as low ms
nossbe ami that first decisions seemed TO De against
The consnopaity the law and that the dealers ad
been advised hy counsel that the law was hot cohsu'"
tiona and had acted on that advice
The RecorderI have nothing to do with inc VISION o. inc
law nor its stringency The law is here anu uSt NC en-
xttoIey as to the various which affect the pun
smen inflicted and in this case nue. the
$3.50 or $lz3 each ,,, $50
The fine was quickly paid and then the calling up
pleading and sentencing OF the accused neu quichy
lowed. Several Of them were groeers VINO Ga smulI
business or ha their business since the acts
complained of and were now out OF empioyu, ~ "
Few NJ their cases the Recorder allowed the defendants
10 nave few days III which 10 RAISE the money u Pa'
their fines. =, =, .o,,.ro,rira
was to pay $780, though mis- counsel pleaded
that his client had lost $4,000 IN the falling away OF tne
value of his machinery i'll giving up business Sohrdu
IT, Abelman who said that he had only sold oeomar
garipc a retail dealer who asked Tor IL was AT rs u
Willing TO plead guilty. but finally did so and was hned
500 Two or three firms whose clerks were nned paiu
the their employees The ZINES aggregated o'er
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